There seems to have been some talk about setting up refugee camps for those people displaced by the xenophobic violence around the country. This has been rejected by the government because it argues that it has a duty in terms of the Constitution and International law to integrate refugees and not to lock them up [...]
Posts under ‘xenophobia’
UK Observer on xenophpobic violence
I read the Observer today as I am in Madrid and have no access to the Sunday Crimes. There is a two page article on the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. As is always the case with these things, the article is a bit simplistic, but the headline was striking: ¨End of the Rainbow Nationa?¨ [...]
Xenophobic violence: why we (still) need ANC?
Maybe we (still) need the ANC – especially those of us in the chattering classes and more especially those whining whites who think the ANC is destroying the country. The reason for this, I think, is that the ANC is for the moment the only party with a chance of keeping our fragile and fractured society [...]
Xenophobic attacks: what do we do?
A colleague of mine, Prof Darcy du Toit, sent me an email in which he makes some salient points about the use of the army to quell the xenophobic attacks and asks some searching questions about the underlying causes and how to address them. He was responding to news reports that Lawyers for Human Rights [...]
Xenophobia excused or explained?
Much has already been written about the appalling attacks on fellow Africans in Alexandra and elsewhere around Gautentg. It is, of course, easy to take the moral high ground and condemn the attacks and it is good to see that a cross section of politicians and civil society groups have done just that. But it [...]
